Past Events

In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam and Leeds University Far & Near was shown within the Neverends exhibition at Leeds University. This was an extended project from the Arts Council funded bid. With thanks to all who made this possible.

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Far & Near at

Leeds University School of Design

Oct 24 to Nov 20 2017

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A Call for memorial contributions

November 19-January 15 2017

To start Far & Near we invited you to share a memory or pay tribute to a loved-one which then became part of the project through visual art/music.
The contribution was collected, recorded and will continue to be exhibited as part of the ongoing project.

Neverends Seminar

Saturday April 29 2017, 10am - 3pm

The Neverends commissioned artists were joined by a stellar line-up of speakers to discuss aspects of memory and place: Avrill Maddrell is the Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading who presented an illustrated talk on her work on memorial benches and wider vernacular memorials and their meaning; Rosemary Shirley and Verity Elson are co-curators of the exhibition Creating the Countryside installed at Compton Verney and Frances Presley is a poet for whom visual art has always played an important role in her writing and research.

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The seminar was held in the Fred Smith Room, Grimsby Fishing heritage Centre, Grimsby, DN31 1UZ

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Neverends exhibition

April 1 2017 - June 2017

NeverEnds is a collaborative exhibition featuring work from the Far and Near Project as well as an exciting new project from Judith Tucker/Harriet Tarlo and David Ainley.

The exhibition also featured related work from the Arts Council Collection which incorporated work by Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Martin Parr, Angust Fairhurst, Birgit Skiold, Jane Harris, Brian Alterio and Hamish Fulton. This proved to be a must see exhibition and a rare opportunity to see such a fine collection of art in one show.

Dressing of Memorial Bench

December 21, 2016

An adopted bench was dressed with memories contributed by the public and local artists was filmed as a short performance piece alongside Maria Garner who read some of her poetry which lent itself very well to the occasion.

Linda Ingham and David Power were invited to exhibit as part of the ASLE and LAND2 Conference and Exhibition 2017 in partnership with Sheffield Hallam and Leeds University of Design.